An interesting opportunity has arisen that would allow the successful applicant to join a start-up to help deliver the software platform for a new digital asset securities exchange; focused on an institutional client base. The ideal applicant will bring previous experience of analyzing and defining requirements and design specification.

This is the 1st dedicated Scrum Master hire into the software development team in the Philippines. You will be working alongside a growing dev team of 20 staff locally and ~15 additionally in the UK. This role is varied. We are seeking someone with a general all-round skill set that is used to simply getting stuck in. It is vital you possess good communication skills and are comfortable dealing with all levels of the business.

Your key job activities:

• Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology.

• Responsible to remove the impediments for the agile-scrum team.

• Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes.

• Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning and retrospective meetings.

• Helps product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.

• Helps team with quality of delivery & definition of done.

Skills:

• At least 4 years of experience in a Scrum Master role

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.

• Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills.

• Knowledge of Confluence/JIRA tools

• Excellent documentation skills.

• A results-oriented outlook with the ability to prioritize and deliver key tasks.

• Ability to partner with other project stakeholders to resolve issues and to mitigate project impacts.

Desirable:

• Experience analyzing and defining large ERP or Financial IT systems.

• Experience in finance with real time trading systems/market data.

• Experience in working in a regulated financial firm.

• Experienced in working with multinational global teams.